My argument is not for some holy campaign, as Bushman suggests, but for a good ol' liberal arts education as most conducive to the full exercise
of divine intelligence.
The other attributes that Professor Dawkins mentions in his list are all consequences
of the divine intelligence; though we can add that God's readiness to forgive sins is not something that can be deduced with certainty by philosophy alone.
Evolutionary theists would concur with the IDT advocates that at some point the search for adequate explanation must appeal to the notion
of divine intelligence — or better, divine wisdom — if the idea of God is to have any relevance at all, However, they are not obsessed with the idea of design.
One can not prove to another the existence
of a divine intelligence that designed, encapsulates and is present within the beauty and precision of all existence.
Not exact matches
scot Are you seriously suggesting that a natural bioprocess being efficient is evidence
of a «
divine intelligence»?
Faithful to it, Vatican I recognised that faith involves a free act which can not «be produced necessarily by arguments
of human reason» (DS 3035, 3010); hence the Council added to those external signs the «internal helps
of the Holy Spirit» so that the former might be «most certain signs
of divine revelation adapted to every
intelligence» (DS 3009f, 3033f); as a result faith relies on «a most firm foundation» and «none can ever have a justreason for changing or doubting that same faith» (DS 3014, 3036; 2119 - 2121).
Admittedly the best attempts to read the signs
of design in creation remain human hypotheses, subject to criticism and revision, but without
divine design there would be neither analogous
intelligence nor analogous science.
Faithful to it, Vatican I recognised that faith involves a free act which can not «be produced necessarily by arguments
of human reason» (DS 3035, 3010); hence the Council added to those external signs the «internal helps
of the Holy Spirit» so that the former might be «most certain signs
of divine revelation adapted to every
intelligence» (DS 3009f, 3033f); as a result faith relies on «a most firm foundation» and «none can ever have a just reason for changing or doubting that same faith» (DS 3014, 3036; 2119 - 2121).
We can even see problem solving
intelligence in slime mold, and our own brains work very much like the hive
intelligence found in bees and ants... no sign
of any «
divine» influence but fascinating none the less.
Darwin saw himself as giving an explanation, by no means complete,
of the variety and distribution
of species around the globe; he argued for the superiority
of his explanation over its competitors, including those that attempted to account for these facts by appeal to a
divine intelligence.
This was evidently a real contribution to Israel's thinking, for in a later age the wisdom writers turn frequently to it as a favorite theme, and in particular it serves as the basis
of the lengthy dissertation upon the transcendent
intelligence of the
divine that is put into the mouth
of the Lord in the latter part
of the Book
of Job.
Perhaps it is part
of the
divine mystery, the
divine abyss which human
intelligence can not plumb.
Because such existence is intrinsically intelligible to man and dependent upon human
intelligence, by analogy we are enabled to affirm the
divine mind and Creator
of the whole cosmos.
The book, «Silence
of God» by Sir Robert Anderson sums it thusly: «If Christ was indeed
divine, no person
of ordinary
intelligence will question that he had power to open the eyes
of the blind, the ears
of the deaf, the lips
of the dumb.
In just the degree that we come into a conscious realization
of our oneness with the Infinite Life, and open ourselves to this
divine inflow, do we actualize in ourselves the qualities and powers
of the Infinite Life, do we make ourselves channels through which the Infinite
Intelligence and Power can work.
In a structure
of thought dominated, as secular humanism's is, by the strict opposition
of «human
intelligence» to «
divine guidance» and by the insistence that any reference to a transcendent reality is meaningless, obviously most traditional religious terms are going to be missing from respectable discourse (or mentioned only to be demeaned)....
At first glance, intelligent design looks like the same argument that evolution's foes have made since 1859, when Charles Darwin published On the Origin
of Species: Only a
divine intelligence could have created something as complex as life on Earth.
This power
of man was identical with the
divine intelligence; and to suppose that this could originate with matter involved the absurdity
of supposing the source
of divine power dependent on the arrangement
of matter.
It was especially important to Athena, the goddess
of wisdom, war, and
divine intelligence; and Zeus, god
of sky, thunder, and justice.
Intelligence is one
of the most
divine gift to all human whether he / she is poor or rich which itself a self - responsibility to protect the same by respecting interdependency.The fragmentation
of societies and nations has not brought us isolation from the troubles
of others.
Intelligence is one
of the most
divine gift to all human whether he / she is poor or rich which itself a self - responsibility to protect the same by respecting interdependency.
Well, unless you're saying he should have been a maverick genius who should have seen what no - one else could, then that seems to me to be an unfair comment, as the market simply reflects the combined
intelligence / view
of everyone concerned, and if it was in any way divinable that the market was about to plummet, then people would have
divined that, and the market would have fallen — that's what markets are.
She also encourages you to follow the
divine intelligence of your body above and beyond her instructions at all times, so you are truly listening and responding to your body's cues.